I had an enjoyable half-day on the Wensum yesterday with Simon Cooper of Fishing Breaks. I am pleased to say that Simon caught a very fine wild brown trout in its full spawning livery. It was a wonderfully coloured fish that I hope will go on to spawn successfully. During the morning there was a good mixed hatch of caddis, some blue-winged olives and other small, pale upwings and a number of fish feeding. I saw - I think for the first time - a caddis on the river with its wings folded over its back. It was very similar to the one in my photo of a caddis on a nettle leaf. All the others were in flight, their wings a blur. As it is, at least in my experience, so rare to see a non-flying caddis on the water, I have never understood why so many artificial caddis patterns have folded wings. Can someone please explain why this should be so?

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Terry Lawton is a writer, author and a dedicated fly fisherman. He is secretary of the Bintry Mill Trout Fishery on the river Wensum in Norfolk, where, when not fishing, he can often be found up to his waist in the river.